THE YEAR IN REVIEW - Jefferson Scholars Foundation

the year in review
development
I n response to uncertainty about the pace of financial recovery,
the development office devoted fiscal year 2010 to strengthening old
and building new relationships. We are pleased to report that this year the
development team, along with the program directors and the president of
the Foundation, met with well over 1,000 alumni, friends, and parents of the
University, just as we have done in the past. It is through these relationships,
some nearly thirty years old, that the Foundation can report an increase in
philanthropic cash flow for the fiscal year of $10.4 million.
Relationships are the cornerstone of any
vital institution. This past year, the Foundation’s
donors have created Jefferson Scholarships
in recognition of leaders, scholars, and
citizens whom they hold in high esteem.
Eli Tullis, Paul Tudor Jones, and Lee and
Elizabeth Ainslie created a challenge grant
to fund a Jefferson Scholarship in honor
of John and Betsy Casteen, to recognize
their dedicated leadership and service to
the University of Virginia. This challenge
raised $1 million in funds to endow the John
and Betsy Casteen Jefferson Scholarship. In
addition, friends and colleagues of former
University of Virginia Athletic Director Jim
Rachael Beaton (back right), the C. Mark Pirrung Family Fellow
(Astronomy), leads a group of undergraduate and graduate students at
the Large Binocular Telescope on Mt. Graham in Arizona.
Copeland established a Jefferson Scholarship
to recognize Jim’s leadership in the classroom
and on the athletics field, not only at
the University of Virginia but also with the
Cleveland Browns, where Jim played professional
football, and at Southern Methodist
University, where Jim held his last position
as athletic director. Lastly, Beverly Mignerey
endowed a Jefferson Scholarship in honor of
her good friend Susan Shinn and her family.
Their friendship began at the University of
Colorado, and this scholarship will mark the
opening of a new selection region that will
attract Colorado’s most outstanding students
to the University of Virginia this fall.
Donors also celebrated these lifelong
relationships through their contributions to
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